Ch 13 Memory Improvement Flashcards
Process for meaning
Focus on what the material means
Subjective organization
Make up your own organization of information
Technical mnemonics
Acronym and acrostics
Acronym
Using the first letter of a word to create an easy to be remembered word
Acrostic
Using the first letter of words to create an easily remembered sentence
Encoding variability
Studying in different conditions
Encoding specificity
Remembering is easier when the conditions match the encoding conditions
Retrieval practice
Learn by testing yourself
Generation effect
Generating your own association for the information being learned
Judgment of learning
Your awareness of how much you have learned or mastered
Region of proximal learning
Studying the easiest of what we have not learned yet
Expanded retrieval practice
You expand the time between retrieval
Massed practice
Studying in one chunk of time
Distributive practice
Spacing your study over a period of time
Spacing effect
More is learned when studying is spaced out over time
Mnemonists
People with extraordinary memory that is innate and practiced
Collaborative memory
Working with other people to remember information
What are the four principles of improving memory?
Process for meaning
Retrieval cue use
Metamemory
Distributive practice
